Many agent-based systems have been developed over the past decade; however, the security issues are usually not addressed adequately. In order to make the mobile agent paradigm mo...
An Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (EDA) is proposed to approach the Hybrid Flow Shop with Sequence Dependent Setup Times and Uniform Machines in parallel (HFSSDST-UM) proble...
We consider two problems related to communication between geographically distributed family members. First, we examine the problem of supporting peripheral awareness, in order to i...
The Common Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) specification originally did not include any support for fault-tolerance. The Fault-Tolerant CORBA standard was added to address th...
Workflow mechanism is used into grid system to combine multiple grid services to implement complex grid application. But the workflow is not programmable, and is not flexible enoug...